Toader, Iulian D. (2023) Rules and Meaning in Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]
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This book concerns the metasemantics of quantum mechanics (QM). Roughly, it pursues an investigation at an intersection of the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of semantics, and it offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of standard QM. Two problems for such explanations are discussed: categoricity and permanence of rules. New results include 1) a reconstruction of Einstein's incompleteness argument, which concludes that a local, separable, and categorical QM cannot exist, 2) a reinterpretation of Bohr's principle of correspondence, grounded in the principle of permanence, 3) a meaning-variance argument for quantum logic, which follows a line of critical reflections initiated by Weyl, and 4) an argument for semantic indeterminacy leveled against inferentialism about QM, inspired by Carnap's work in the philosophy of classical logic.
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| Keywords: | quantum mechanics, metasemantics, quantum logic, meaning variance, inferentialism, semantic indeterminacy, categoricity, permanence of rules | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Mathematics > History of Philosophy Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Iulian D. Toader | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2023 18:36 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2023 18:36 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 22686 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Mathematics > History of Philosophy Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 21 October 2023 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22686 |
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